Easter is the greatest feast of the Christian year. Death has not had the final say. Christ has conquered the grave and has risen to new life. We have been imbued with the hope that we, too, might share in this life eternal. Alleluia! But one would hardly know this...
After Jesus’s resurrection, he appears to the disciples doing simple things like eating a piece of baked fish. Carlos Martínez-Vela reflects on how Jesus teaches us to be human. Based on readings for the Third Sunday of Easter. Jesus was human, not superhuman....
Often in life, we find ourselves in periods of waiting. While enduring a difficult situation or holding out hope, sometimes all we can do is wait. When these times come, we want to tell ourselves that the waiting will be worth it in the end – but it’s so difficult...
When I was a kid, some of the worst words to wake up to were: “Rise and shine! We have to go to Mass today.” “Today? On a Wednesday?” “Yep, it’s a Holy Day of Obligation.” “Oh, great. That means the Church is making us go to Mass in the middle of the week. Does...
Growing up in rural Vermont, I was aware of what a gift the natural world was from a very young age. Some of my earliest experiences of God came from spending nights outside under the stars, marveling at the immensity of it all, especially on those nights when the...
